Here's your round-up of all the latest Swansea City news for Thursday, February 6.
Ambition behind Coventry move - Grimes
Matt Grimes says Coventry City's 'ambition' was the main driver behind his decision to make the switch from Swansea City.
The former Swans skipper made his Sky Blues debut in the 62nd minute of the 2-0 defeat to Leeds United on Tuesday, having completed a move from south Wales last week. Sign up to our Swansea City newsletter here.
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Swansea indicated at the time that they could not compete with the financial package on offer to Grimes at the CBS Arena, prompting some to suggest that finances were a key reason behind the move.
However, when asked about his reasoning, Grimes told the club's official website: "The ambition of the club to be honest. That's what I was sold on.
"Obviously I was at Swansea for 10 years, a very long time.
"I had conversations with Dean [Austin, Coventry's head of recruitment], the manager and the chairman. They really sold the project to me and it's something I felt like I had to be part with."
Asked what he hoped to achieve with his new club, he added: “I think it is very early to say, I have only been in the building for a matter of days, but I am happy to be part of this project, and the club is really ambitious.
“Let’s see what happens.”
Swans legend backs O'Brien for success
Alan Tate has backed Lewis O'Brien to be a success at Swansea City following the midfielder's season long loan from Nottingham Forest.
However, he told the BBC, the 26-year-old is not likely to be a direct replacement for Matt Grimes.
"Signing Lewis is a good bit of business," said Tate, who worked with O'Brien at Forest when he was assistant boss to Steve Cooper.
"He brings enthusiasm and dynamism with the legs he has in midfield. He gets stuck in, he will make passes and he will make forward runs.
"He also a great lad, one of the best you will ever meet. He has the cheeky chappy sense of humour, but he trains properly and will play anywhere you want him to play. I think the Swans fans will take to him."
The club pushed hard to land former Huddersfield Town star O'Brien on deadline day following the departure of Grimes, who made the move to Coventry City a few days before. The new man is also set to take the outgoing skipper's number eight shirt.
However, while Tate says O'Brien will have a positive impact in midfield, he's unlikely to bring the same skillset.
"The only way he is like Grimesy is that he is left-footed. They are not like for like players in any way really, in terms of how they play.
"Grimes is more of a controller. Lewis is an all-action midfielder who wants to get up and down the pitch. He wants to get forward and score goals but he will also do really well on the defensive side."
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Swansea's transfer window 'depressing' - OTJ
Former Swansea City midfielder Owain Tudur Jones has labelled the club's January transfer window activity as "depressing".
The Swans have added just two players to their squad in Hannes Delcroix and Lewis O'Brien, deals that Jones believes were largely borne out of 'panic' around the squad.
"I always think that if you sign a player on deadline day there's a sense of panic," he told BBC Radio Cymru podcast, Y Coridor Ansicrwydd.
"Swansea City are a club that needed to bring in players in a bit of a panic. You were hoping, by doing that, they would be lucky in bringing in good players.
"What we've seen this last week is Delcroix coming in as a centre-half and he only came in because Harry Darling is suspended for three games.
"O'Brien only came in because Grimes had left. You wonder if Darling had not been sent off and Grimes had not left, then perhaps they would not have brought anyone in and that's depressing."
